How much is too much
theisz:
Quote from: Ancient Sim on 2005 October 31, 10:49:54
I have a silly question re. downloads. If I delete a custom hairstyle I don't want anymore, or an item of clothing, will the mesh automatically be deleted as well?
I've been wondering this also as I have recently went through a "fall" cleaning and deleted tons of hairstyles I didn't want. Now I don't know which mesh belongs to what in order to delete the unwanted ones. It's the same thing with custom clothes meshes. I deleted the outfits but don't know which meshes belonged to them. Sucky.
speedreader:
I only have 365 files and 80 MB. And I actually thought I had a lot until I read this thread.
Over the weekend I thought I would get rid of some hairstyles I don't use. I opened Body Shop and went through the process of deleting the unwanted. Then I opened my game and discovered I had only 5 custom styles left, even though there were 3 pages of them when I left Body Shop. What happened? I had to go and re-download my favorites and I still have one bald Sim running around town. And let's not talk about how I no doubt downloaded even more than I had to begin with 'cause I found more I liked!
Motoki:
Yes, that is a huge problem in that if you delete a texture that goes with a custom mesh the mesh does not get deleted and is near impossible to find and vice versa is true too if you went into downloads and deleted the mesh.
The best thing to do when downloading, although it is a bit of a pain in the ass, is to have the custom mesh and textures in its own subfolder and label the folder something descriptive that tells you what the file is and who made it, something like 'Peggygirl short and Shaggy hair' etc. It helps tremendously when you go to delete a file.
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: Renatus on 2005 October 31, 10:32:50
5 GB is practically more downloads than game! ;D I only have 700MB worth of stuff, and I can't even come near to using it all.
eeek 5GB is bigger than my entire Sims2 folder which is currently 1.4GB and that is with my downloads folder and all games including nightlife my Downloads folder is at 836MB and I dont come any where near using it all. I would have to have literally a thousand Playable sims to put my downloads into constant use .I weed out downloads I dont use at all constantly .and if I could weed out an overload of meg hair I would.for what ever reason a glitch has spawned meg hair by the truck load.Iunfortunately meghair is a maxis Item so I cant delete the quadruples of the meg hair.
SaraMK:
I agree with Motoki, too much is when you can't stand the loading.
My game will load in under 2 minutes with up to 20,000 files, but at 30,000 it will take over 20 minutes. I don't know what the deal is. Must be an exponential increase or something.
I keep it under 10,000 files at all times. I manage my downloads by creating more than one game set, and letting each one have its own custom content. This way, I can have as many different items as I want, but don't have to deal with the resulting loading times. For example, I have one all-alien neighborhood, and all the weird, crazy, and alien-like skins and objects go in there (example: Weird Zone from MTS2). Then, those same items do not go into any of my other game sets, because the other neighborhoods are not alien-related and I would never use the alien stuff in them, so why should they clutter up the catalog?
I always load newly downloaded items into an empty game to see what they actually look like. A lot of stuff looks good in pictures or in Bodyshop but is hideous in the game, but if your catalog is already bulging you might not see all the new stuff and it might clutter up your game for ages before you finally get a good look at it and realize it's crap and you don't want it.
I also always customize the things I download. A lot of clothing is in the wrong categories, and most hair is not genetically correct. I fix up all of that. It makes using the items much more appealing, and the catalogs load faster if there are no dresses in the swimwear section.
I also put everything in collections. It helps me locate the right stuff quickly. I actually have collections based on color of clothing. Special body meshes (fat lady, bodybuilder, etc) go into their own collections. If some clothing is a set (pants and top separate, for example), then those go into a collection as well. I even have collections for stuff from particularly good sites. I almost never use the actual catalog to rumage for clothing. Takes way too long to find the right stuff that way.
I find that the added "trouble" of looking carefully at each item and fixing it if necessary, results in me having only the very best stuff in my game.
What can I say, I'm an organization maniac. Probably because I'm a download maniac, too. I download so much that if I put it all in one game set, it would take hours for the game to load. I have, currently, 11 game sets. Each has about 10,000 files, mostly with very little overlap. Do the math.
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